Books, Words, and Writing

Signing Off, Probably Permanently

Amy — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:44:28 +0000

I’ve had a wonderful time posting entries here for the last 1 ½ years. Now I’m turning my attention to other projects–although, on the principle of “Never say never,” I won’t rule out returning at some point.

I’ll leave both my blogs up so that you can look at the archives, and I’ll be posting new links periodically on the links section of my website. Please drop by there from time to time, and always feel free to send me a message.

Definitely check out the great blogs listed in the right-hand sidebars of this blog and my other blog (Amy On The Web).

Thanks so much for reading!

Latin Phrases Translated

Amy — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:01:48 +0000

Latin Quotes, Latin Phrases, Latin Mottos, and Latin Quotations: “Over 1,900 Latin Quotes, Latin Phrases, Latin Mottos and Latin Quotations dictionary with English Translations.”

Great Moments In Literary Baseball

Amy — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 13:29:55 +0000

Great Moments In Literary Baseball: very funny article from 1987 features highlights from games with Franz Kafka as pitcher, Henry Miller as third-base coach, Vladimir Nabokov as player-manager, and more.

Via Myrtias.

A Ruckus About Poetry

Amy — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 08:59:24 +0000

You Call That Poetry?! Seven Letters That Managed To Freak Out a Nation:

On a cool autumn evening in 1965, a 22-year-old poet named Aram Saroyan typed seven letters that would amount to one of the most controversial poems in history.

Not that he knew it at the time.

Via Robot Wisdom.

What To Do At An SF Convention

Amy — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 16:24:11 +0000

What To Do An SF Convention: choosing what panel to attend, how to bid on art work, figuring out the etiquette of fan parties, and more.

All About Robin Hood

Amy — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 16:49:41 +0000

The Robin Hood Project:

THE ROBIN HOOD PROJECT is designed to make available in electronic format a database of texts, images, bibliographies, and basic information about the Robin Hood stories and other outlaw tales.

Women’s Writing before 1700

Amy — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 07:35:13 +0000

Other Women’s Voices: Translations of Women’s Writing Before 1700:

The site offers an introduction to over 125 women who wrote a substantial amount before 1700 and whose work (or at least a good part of it) has been translated into modern English. All but three entries are on women who wrote in languages other than English; those three are on women who wrote in the English of the 1300s and 1400s. Almost all of the entries are on individuals; a few are on more than one woman.

The site’s goal is to get you to want to read all that is available in translation (or in the original if you can) of these women’s writing. Why all? You need to read the whole work in order to hear the writer’s full voice. Anthologies are admirable, but in reading them you eavesdrop on a small part of a conversation; you need to go to the whole to hear the writer’s full conversation with her world.

. . . . .

You will find three women telling of their experiences in prison (Perpetua, Leonor Lopez de Cordoba, Leonora Ulfeldt), and one woman trying to come to grips with another kind of prison—total deafness (Teresa de Cartagena).

Five describe their own experience of war (Li Qingzhao, Daibu, Gulbadan, Olympia Morata, Anne Marie Louise de Montpensier), while three others write in praise of war and warriors (Auvaiyar, Khansa, Laila).

One tells of a theft she carried out (Helene Kottanner), and another writes in praise of a smuggler (Huneberc).

Via MetaFilter.

What Book Are You?

Amy — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 07:40:51 +0000

You’re Watership Down!
by Richard Adams
Though many think of you as a bit young, even childish, you’re actually incredibly deep and complex. You show people the need to rethink their assumptions, and confront them on everything from how they think to where they build their houses. You might be one of the greatest people of all time. You’d be recognized as such if you weren’t always talking about talking rabbits.

Take the Book Quiz at the Blue Pyramid.

Via Books, Inq.

Blog About Digitized Books

Amy — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 07:29:22 +0000

Digitized Book of the Week:

Featuring news and highlights of the large scale digitization initiatives at the Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As a member of the Open Content Alliance, UIUC Library is digitizing and contributing to the Internet Archive books and serials from its collections that focus on Illinois history, literature, and natural resources; rural life and agriculture; railroad history and engineering; and works in translation.

Two recent books: Cranky Ann, the street-walker : a story of Chicago in chunks (1878) and Wicked Nell: a gay girl of the town (1878), both by Shang Andrews.

Via Plep.

Collection of Author Signatures

Amy — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 07:27:49 +0000

Examples of Author Signatures: Louisa May Alcott, Maya Angelou, Kinky Friedman, John Galsworthy, Erle Stanley Gardner, and many more.